Dissection of the MYCN locus in Feingold syndrome and isolated oesophageal atresia
- 12 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Human Genetics
- Vol. 19 (5), 602-606
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2010.225
Abstract
Feingold syndrome (FS) is a syndromic microcephaly entity for which MYCN is the major disease-causing gene. We studied the expression pattern of MYCN at different stages of human embryonic development and collected a series of 17 FS and 12 isolated oesophageal atresia (IOA) cases. An MYCN gene deletion/mutation was identified in 47% of FS cases exclusively. We hypothesized that mutations or deletions of highly conserved non-coding elements (HCNEs) at the MYCN locus could lead to its misregulation and thereby to FS and/or IOA. We subsequently sequenced five HCNEs at the MYCN locus and designed a high-density tiling path comparative genomic hybridization array of 3.3 Mb at the MYCN locus. We found no mutations or deletions in this region, supporting the hypothesis of genetic heterogeneity in FS.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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